Dishes · A classic of Jamaican · St Elizabeth

Bammy

Also Bami

A thick round flatbread of grated cassava, soaked in coconut milk and fried or steamed — Jamaica's oldest bread.

What makes it bammy

  • Grated cassava, pressed dry.
  • Pressed into rounds and baked on a griddle.
  • Soaked in coconut milk before frying.

Where it comes from

It comes from the Taíno, who grated bitter cassava, squeezed out its poisonous juice and baked the flour into flat cakes. Jamaicans have kept making it that way, in the cassava country of the south and south-west.

Today it's bought ready-made, then soaked in coconut milk and fried or steamed at home, and eaten with fried fish, escovitch or ackee and saltfish.

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Start your own bammy
No one here has made bammy yet. Start it as v1, and every version after is an experiment the next cook can learn from.

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